Wayne Smith

Coaching Categories

  • Specialist Coaches

Areas of Expertise

  • Analysing the opposition
  • Attacking Framework
  • Back Attack
  • Blind Side Attack
  • Coach Philosophy
  • Communication and Man Management
  • Contact and the Breakdown
  • Contact to Continuity
  • Continuity and Support Play
  • Counter Attack
  • Creating a Successful Team Environment
  • Creation and Exploitation of Space
  • Developing a Comprehensive Coaching Programme
  • Developing a Season Game Plan and Patterns of Play
  • Developing a Team Profile
  • Dynamism in a Game
  • Kicking skills
  • Leadership
  • Passing Skills
  • Planning a Season Campaign
  • Planning a Weekly Programme
  • Position Specific 1st 5/8
  • Principles of Play
  • Role of Core skills in team play
  • Role of the Coach
  • Runner Calls and Team Patterns
  • Selection
  • Sequence Plays
  • Skill Acquisition
  • Team Attack
  • Team Profile, Strategy and Selection
  • Team Strategy
  • The Coach/CEO/Board Relationship
  • The Game Plan Model
  • The Professional Rugby Environment
  • The Review Process
  • Transformational Coaching
  • Transition Rugby
  • Vision, Handling and Decision making

Background

  • IRANZ Specialist Tutor
  • Assistant All Black Coach Current
  • Coached Northampton 2002 - 2004
  • All Blacks Coach 2000 – 2001
  • Crusaders Coach 1997-1999
  • Played 17 tests for the All Blacks between 1980 – 1986

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